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Sex and Gender in Pain

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Sex: It is the genetic, hormonal, and anatomic characteristics that determine whether a person is a biological female or male; typically defined by physical assessment of genitalia.

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  1. Division of Palliative Medicine and Bioethics, Winthrop University Hospital, 222 Station Plaza, Suite 518, Mineola, NY, 11501, USA

    Priya Pinto MD

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Montefiore Medical Center, 19628 89th Avenue, New York, NY, 11423, USA

    Devina Persaud MD

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, 3400 Bainbridge Ave, LL400, Bronx, NY, 10128, USA

    Karina Gritsenko MD

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Correspondence to Karina Gritsenko MD .

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    R. Jason Yong

  2. Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Michael Nguyen

  3. Department of Anesthesiology Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Ehren Nelson

  4. Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Health Care Center at Chestnut Hill, Center for Perioperative Research, Sedation for Interventional Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Richard D. Urman

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Pinto, P., Persaud, D., Gritsenko, K. (2017). Sex and Gender in Pain. In: Yong, R., Nguyen, M., Nelson, E., Urman, R. (eds) Pain Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43133-8_32

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